{"id":1081,"date":"2020-08-01T23:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feministssoa.group.shef.ac.uk\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:01:06","slug":"part-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Part-Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Title:<\/strong> <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Part-Architecture<\/strong>:<strong style=\"user-select: auto;\"> <\/strong>the Maison de Verre, Duchamp, domesticity and desire in 1930s Paris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Author: <\/strong>Emma Cheatle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Publisher:<\/strong> Routledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Year:<\/strong> 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Abstract:<\/strong> Part-architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau\u2019s Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, the Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp. Aligning the two works materially, historically and conceptually, the book challenges the accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre , makes original spatial and social accounts of its inhabitation in 1930s Paris and presents new architectural readings of the Large Glass . Through a rich analysis, which incorporates creative projects into history and theory research, the book establishes new ways of writing about architecture. Designed for politically progressive gynaecologist Dr Jean Dalsace and his avantgarde wife, Annie Dalsace, the Maison de Verre combines a family home with a gynaecology clinic into a \u2018free plan\u2019 layout. Screened only by glass walls, the presence of the clinic in the home suggests an untold dialogue on 1930s sexuality. The text explores the Maison de Verre through another radical glass construction, the Large Glass , where Duchamp\u2019s complex depiction of unconsummated sexual relations across the glass planes reveals his resistance to the marital conventions of 1920s Paris. This and other analyses of the Large Glass are used as a framework to examine the Maison de Verre as a register of the changing history of women\u2019s domestic and maternal choices, reclaiming the building as a piece of female social architectural history. The process used to uncover and write the accounts in the book is termed \u2018partarchitecture\u2019. Derived from psychoanalytic theory, part-architecture fuses analytical, descriptive and creative processes, to produce a unique social and architectural critique. Identifying three essential materials to the Large Glass , the book has three main chapters: \u2018Glass\u2019, \u2018Dust\u2019 and \u2018Air\u2019. Combining theory text, creative writing and drawing, each traces the history and meaning of the material and its contribution to the spaces and sexuality of the Large Glass and the Maison de Verre . As a whole, the book contributes important and unique spatial readings to existing scholarship and expands definitions of architectural design and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Part_Architecture.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">Contents, Prologue and Introduction are available to be downloaded<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book, Emma Cheatle (London: Routledge, 2017). 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